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  Greene V. Lowry 46 Ga. 55, Supreme Court of Georgia (July 01, 1872) 1. When in November, 1864, a contract was made for board for a year, and in February, 1865, a note was given for the sum agreed on, but the boarding ceased in August, 1865, and in November, 1865, the parties had a settlement, and the equities of their Confederate contract were agreed upon, the true value of the board actually received, settled, and... 1872 Cases    
  Grigsby's Ex'r V. Wilkinson 9 Bush 91, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (October 15, 1872) James B. Grigsby died, domiciled in Montgomery County, Ky., in 1856, and shortly after his death his last will and testament, which had been made and published in 1847, was duly admitted to record. His son R. F. A. Grigsby, who was the executor of his will, brought this suit a few months after his father's death to obtain a construction of the... 1872 Cases    
  Hill V. Felton 47 Ga. 455, Supreme Court of Georgia (July 01, 1872) Where the Court is of opinion that there is no patent ambiguity in those parts of a will affecting the property in issue before it, and no latent ambiguity is raised by proof of extrinsic circumstances, the instructions of the testator to the scrivener who drew the will are inadmissible to show that the testator intended to dispose of his property... 1872 Cases    
  Hinton V. Kennedy 3 S.C. 459, Supreme Court of South Carolina (August 13, 1872) On an appeal from the concurring judgment of the Commissioner and Chancellor upon a question of fact, the onus is on the appellant to show, from the facts in evidence, that there is no reasonable doubt of the error alleged. Where the estate of a decedent becomes insolvent after his death, the general assets cannot be longer applied to the... 1872 Cases    
  Holland V. Clark 67 N.C. 104, Supreme Court of North Carolina (June 01, 1872) The defendant's counsel lays down the doctrine too broad, when he attempts to maintain the position that, if the plaintiff has a remedy by an action of covenant against one person, he cannot sue in assumpsit another person for the same claim. It has been repeatedly decided in this Court, that where one partner signs his own name and affixes his... 1872 Cases    
  Hoover's Heirs V. York 24 La.Ann. 375, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 3776 (May 01, 1872) Appeal from the Thirteenth Judicial District Court, parish of Concordia. Hough, J. 1872 Cases    
  Hubbard V. Baker 48 Ala. 491, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1872) [ACTION ON PROMISSORY NOTE.] APPEAL from the Circuit Court of Russell. Tried before Hon. LITTLEBERRY STRANGE. 1872 Cases    
  Hunt V. Wing 57 Tenn. 139, Supreme Court of Tennessee (April 01, 1872) W. R. Hunt and Giles L. Driver, executors of Eli M. Driver, filed their bill in the Chancery Court at Memphis against Wing, Cox & Co., White & Billingsly, and J. N. Pettit & Co., alleged that they rented to the defendants, Wing, Cox & Co., a plantation in Tunica county, Mississippi, known as the Driver Plantation' and took from them a note... 1872 Cases    
  Inman's Adm'r V. Gibbs 47 Ala. 305, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1872) [PETITION BY PURCHASER TO SET ASIDE SALE OF LANDS UNDER ORDER OF PROBATE COURT.] APPEAL from Probate Court of Sumter. Heard before the Hon. J. A. ABRAHAMS. 1872 Cases    
  Lewis V. Woodfolk 61 Tenn. 25, Supreme Court of Tennessee (December 01, 1872) The plaintiff, Burdett Ashton Lewis, as the administrator of Wm. W. Wilkins, deceased, brought this action in the Circuit Court of Davidson County against the defendant, upon the several promissory notes executed by the defendant on the 10th day of January, 1860, and due and payable at one, two and three years from date, each for the sum of... 1872 Cases    
  Lucas V. Byrne 35 Md. 485, Court of Appeals of Maryland (March 20, 1872) The chief question involved, as we understand from the record of proceedings in the Circuit Court, and the briefs and arguments of the respective counsel, is simply this: Can the plaintiff in a Court of this State by filling up the blank endorsement at bar, assigning the single bill to himself, institute suit in his own name and recover upon the... 1872 Cases    
  Macon and Augusta R. Co. V. Little 45 Ga. 370, Supreme Court of Georgia (January 01, 1872) 1. That clause of the third paragraph of the first section of Article II. of the Constitution of Georgia, which provides that No session of the General Assembly, after the second under this Constitution, shall continue longer than forty days, unless prolonged by a vote of two- thirds of each branch thereof, applies only to the General... 1872 Cases    
  Mobley V. State 46 Miss. 501, Supreme Court of Mississippi (April 01, 1872) 1. CIRCUIT COURT AMENDMENT OF MINUTES. It is competent for the circuit court, at the same term at which a criminal case is tried, when a motion is made after verdict to arrest judgment, because of the omission of the record of the proceedings to show certain essentials on the trial, to cause the minutes of that term to be corrected... 1872 Cases    
  Mosely V. Hogg 45 Ga. 599, Supreme Court of Georgia (January 01, 1872) (MONTGOMERY, Justice, did not preside in this case, having come upon the Bench since it was argued. The decision was reserved from July Term, 1871, to await the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of White vs. Hart, 13 Wallace, 646.) The seventeenth section of the fifth Article of the Constitution of 1868, which declares... 1872 Cases    
  Pardue V. Barnes 54 Tenn. 356, Supreme Court of Tennessee (February 01, 1872) This is an action of covenant tried in the Circuit Court of Cheatham county. Pardue obtained a judgment against Barnes as administrator of J. G. Smith, for about $525, on which execution was issued and returned nulla bona. He then sued Barnes and his securities on Barnes's bond as administrator, charging a devastavit in this, that he procured an... 1872 Cases    
  Plaintiffs Brief upon the Re-argument, William Fagan et Al., V. State of Louisiana. (No. 470) Butchers Benevolent Association, V. Crescent City Live Stock Landing and Slaughter House Company. (Nos. 476, 480) Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number Nos. 470, 476, 480 (November 20, 1872) The Plaintiffs submit as follows: The plaintiffs claim the reversal of the judgments of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, because they, severally, impair rights, privileges, and immunities... 1872 Briefs    
  Slaughter-house Cases 83 U.S. 36, Supreme Court of the United States (December 01, 1872) ERROR to the Supreme Court of Louisiana. The three casesthe parties to which as plaintiffs and defendants in error, are given specifically as a sub-title, at the head of this report, but which are reported together also under the general name which, in common parlance, they had acquiredgrew out of an act of the legislature of the... 1872 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Succession of Caballero 24 La.Ann. 573, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 2255 (November 01, 1872) Appeal from the Second District Court of New Orleans. Duvigneaud, J. 1872 Cases    
  Taylor V. Mayhew 58 Tenn. 596, Supreme Court of Tennessee (September 01, 1872) In April, 1870, C. C. Mayhew, as administrator of G. A. Conn, and in his own right, sued plaintiff in error in the Circuit Court of Hamilton county, upon a bond alleged to have been executed by said Taylor and A. B. Coleman, for the payment to said G. A. Conn and C. C. Mayhew of $300. Taylor pleaded non est factum. He subsequently pleaded, by leave... 1872 Cases    
  Van Valkenburg V. Brown 43 Cal. 43, Supreme Court of California, Docket Number 3091 (January 01, 1872) The plaintiff applied to the Court below for a writ of mandamus against the defendant, who is the County Clerk of the County of Santa Cruz, to compel him to inscribe her name in the Great Register, and enroll her as a legal voter of said county. Judgment having been rendered refusing the writ, she brings this appeal. It appears that she is a... 1872 Cases    
  Waller V. Ray 48 Ala. 468, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1872) [APPEAL FROM DECREE OF PROBATE COURT ON FINAL SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS OF ADMINISTRATOR DE BONIS NON, &C.] APPEAL from the Probate Court of Montgomery. Tried before Hon. GEORGE ELY. 1872 Cases    
  Wescott V. Waller 47 Ala. 492, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1872) [ACTION ON JUDGMENT--ACCORD AND SATISFACTION.] APPEAL from the Circuit Court of Montgomery. Tried before Hon. MILTON J. SAFFOLD. 1872 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Whitesides V. Williams 66 N.C. 141, Supreme Court of North Carolina (January 01, 1872) 1. Where it appears to this Court that the Judge below, has, from the statement of the appellant, the objections of the appellee and his own notes, been enabled to make out a case containing the substantial merits of the controversy, the appeal will not be dismissed, although there was great irregularity in the proceeding below. 2. Nor will the... 1872 Cases    
  Williams V. Buster 5 W.Va. 342, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia (July 01, 1872) George W. Buster sold to John Williams, Joseph H. Snead and Charles Stebbins, the Blue Sulphur Springs property, in August, 1858, for twenty-two thousand dollars, to be paid in three equal payments. After the first payment had been made, namely, in February, 1859, he made them a deed for the property, retaining a lien for the residue of the... 1872 Cases    
  Williams V. Durst's Adm'x 35 Tex. 421, Supreme Court of Texas (January 01, 1872) 1. To secure final payment of a note due one day after date, a deed of trust on land and other property was made by the debtor, who covenanted in the deed that he would annually cultivate cotton on a certain quantity of the land, and would annually deliver to the creditor two-thirds of the crop, until the note and interest should be fully paid; and... 1872 Cases    
  Wilson V. Kohlheim 46 Miss. 346, Supreme Court of Mississippi (April 01, 1872) 1. CIRCUIT COURT - INSTRUCTIONS - RIGHT TO MODIFY.-The circuit court is not bound to give instructions to the jury in the language in which they are propounded by the party asking them, but may and should modify them to make them correct. 2. FRAUD - STATUTE OF FRAUDS - VOLUNTARY CONVEYANCE BY FATHER TO HIS SON.-A voluntary conveyance of property by... 1872 Cases    
  Anthony V. Halderman 7 Kan. 50, Supreme Court of Kansas (January 01, 1871) This was an action brought under the provisions of article 29 of the Code of Civil Procedure, by the plaintiff in error, (plaintiff below,) to recover the office of mayor of the city of Leavenworth, and to oust defendant therefrom. The petition was filed in the court below on the fourth day of June, 1870, and on the second of July an answer was... 1871 Cases    
  Billingslea V. Glenn 45 Ala. 540, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1871) [FINAL SETTLEMENT OF ADMINISTRATRIX IN PROBATE COURT.] APPEAL from Probate Court of Montgomery. Tried before Hon. DAVID CAMPBELL. 1871 Cases    
  Blyew V. U.s. 80 U.S. 581, Supreme Court of the United States (December 01, 1871) ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Kentucky; the case being this: By the Revised Statutes of Kentucky, published A.D. 1860, it is enacted: Under the act of 9th April, 1866 (14 Stat. at Large, 27), sometimes called The Civil Rights Bill, which gives jurisdiction to the Circuit Court of all causes, civil and criminal, affecting persons... 1871 Cases    
  Bourland V. Nixon 27 Ark. 315, Supreme Court of Arkansas (December 01, 1871) Nixon, who had a claim, proved in due form before the Probate Court, against the estate of John M. Davis, deceased, got an order of payment against the administrator. But payment was not made when demanded. An execution was issued against the administrator which was returned not satisfied. A sci. fa. then issued against the administrator and his... 1871 Cases    
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